Description
A field of cheerful folk art flowers fills this bright cotton quilt, each bloom built from layered prints with a wiggly rick-rack stem and the odd bumblebee perched alongside. The flower blocks alternate with simple pieced rail blocks framed in lime green, all set on a soft white print and bordered in pink and green florals. Worked in bright quilting cotton rather than wool, it is a lively, playful quilt that finishes at a generous 48 by 56 inches, a natural fit for a child's room, a baby gift, or anywhere a hit of color is welcome.
What the Pattern Includes
This listing is for the printed paper pattern only. Fabric, batting, backing, thread, and rick rack are not included.
The pattern provides full-size appliqué templates and complete instructions for the appliquéd flower blocks, the pieced rail blocks, and the multiple borders, with guidance on choosing fabrics across a range of scales and colors. Appliqué is done by the needle-turn method using freezer-paper templates.
What You'll Need
The quilt is made entirely in quilting cotton: a soft white print for the appliqué and rail blocks, pink fabrics for the block centers, lime green prints for the framing, and fat-eighth prints in green, pink, aqua, blue, fuchsia, orange, purple, and yellow for the flowers, plus black-and-white scraps for the little bugs. Embellishment comes from large and baby rick rack in several colors, with freezer paper and 60-weight cotton thread for the appliqué. The pattern back lists every fabric and trim, and recommends collecting prints in a mix of scales and intensities.
Perfect For
- Quilters who enjoy needle-turn cotton appliqué and want a bright, playful project
- A child's quilt or baby gift in cheerful, saturated colors
- Anyone with a scrappy stash of bright fat eighths looking for a home
- Stitchers who like rick rack and folk art flowers without wool or hand embroidery
Why You'll Love This Pattern
This is a different side of Sue Spargo's folk art: all quilting cotton, no wool and no hand embroidery, so it is an easy entry point for anyone who loves her flowers but prefers to work in cotton. The alternating flower and rail blocks keep the piecing from getting repetitive, and the rick-rack stems and layered prints give each bloom its own personality, bugs and all.
It is a forgiving, scrappy quilt by design. Because the flowers are meant to be cut from a wide mix of prints, it reads beautifully in almost any palette you pull together, and needle-turn appliqué is really the only specialized skill involved. At 48 by 56 inches it lands right in child's-quilt territory, big enough to use and quick enough to feel achievable.
Product Details
- Brand: Sue Spargo Folk Art Quilts
- Item #: SS862
- Designer: Sue Spargo
- Category: Quilting Pattern
- Skill Level: Confident beginner and up (simple patchwork piecing and needle-turn cotton appliqué; no skill level printed on the pattern)
- Technique: Needle-turn cotton appliqué, simple patchwork piecing, rick-rack embellishment
- Finished Size: 48" x 56"
- Format: Printed Paper Pattern; appliqué templates included
- Made in the United States
Specifications
| Brand | Sue Spargo |
| Craft | Applique, Quilting |
| Designer | Sue Spargo |
| Product Type | Quilt Patterns |
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